EVOLUTION OF DANCEHALL

Jamaican music has been evolving for the past fifty-five years. From soca to rock steady, reggae to dancehall, Jamaican music commands attention and respect.

Dancehall music presents a rhythmic blend of Jamaican patois and heavy drums that create a soothing and infectious sequence of beats.
Even with its complicated Jamaican dialect, dancehall music has amassed a global fan base stretching from Colombia to Canada, Holland to Japan. Dating back from the insurgence of popular dancehall dada, vybz kartel(Jamaican) better known as "worl' boss"  nuff ah di youth dem come to a better understanding of the dancehall culture. Dancehall is a genre of Jamaican popular music that originated in the late 1970's. back in a day.


Lately blending with modernization and technology of digital instrumentation,  sounds are changing considerably with digital dancehall(raga) becoming increasingly faster by faster riddims. With basic tools like drum kit, bass/lead guitar and an organ, early dancehall  rocked to the fullest.
Notice that modern dancehall with a worldwide mainstream success is made possible by the blend in cultures across the world and also the style of instrumentals. mostly referred to as commercial dance hall, where artist ease up the strict use of Jamaican patois so as to reach the world wide appeal.
talk about dancehall pop, and recently afro dancehall.


 Party scenes in Jamaica were soon turned wild by the
creativity of 'Master Record King' Tubby who spliced
popular records with local versions. Soon enough,
deejays started sampling on Tubby’s dub plates,
led by U-Roy. As such, this heralded the birth of the
deejaying culture which is attributed to the
development of popular music styles like rap and hip-hop.


Dancehall continues to spread its wings. Its influence continues to Broaden as evidenced by Japanese African deejays performing in a mixture of their native tongue peppered with Jamaican patois. Even in the US, dancehall music is widely sampled in otherwise mainstream genre (including pop, EDM, hip hop and rap)


A variety of western artist have spoken of being inspired by dancehall.
The changing sounds of dancehall music have largely been down to producers behind the tracks.
 Dancehall is widely accepted and loved because not only do the people enjoy the rhythms but it creates a space for people to take control of their own representation, contest conventional relationships of power, and exercise some level of cultural,social and  even political autonomy.